The genetic correlation between cigarette smoking and alcohol drinking among chinese adult male twins: An ordinal bivariate genetic analysis

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 483-490

  Zhang, Ting ^a   Gao, Wenjing ^a   Cao, Weihua ^a   Zhan, Siyan ^a   Lv, Jun ^a   Pang, Zengchang ^b   Wang, Shaojie ^b   Chen, Rongfu ^b   Hu, Yonghua ^a   Li, Liming ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^b SHENZHEN CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

Author keywords

alcohol; China; Genetic correlation; heritability; male; tobacco

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CHINESE; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GROUPS BY AGE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MALE; MODEL; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NORMAL HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; TWINS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHINA; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHINA; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 84866465343     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/thg.2012.31     Document Type: Article

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